Tag: War Crimes

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2009-03 "From the testimonies that we've gathered, lots of demolitions - buildings demolished either by bulldozers or explosives - were done after the area was under Israeli control."
-- Yehuda Shaul, member of Breaking the Silence, an Israeli group that gathers and circulates the testimonies of Israeli soldiers, told BBC News
2009-03 Israeli forces engaged in "wanton destruction" of Palestinian homes during the recent conflict in Gaza.
-- According to human rights investigators
2009-03 "Unless those operating on the ground felt not just 100% but 200% secure - that the places were not booby trapped, that they wouldn't come under fire - they could not have got out of the vehicles.
They would not have used that method
[of anti-tank mines. Troops would have had to leave their armoured vehicles to plant them and rig up the detonators].
The use of the method tells us even more that there wasn't the kind of danger that might have made it lawful to destroy some of those properties."
-- Donatella Rovera, the head of the Amnesty International fact-finding mission to southern Israel and Gaza
2009-03 Wanton destruction on a large scale would qualify as a war crime."
-- Donatella Rovera, the head of the Amnesty International fact-finding mission to southern Israel and Gaza
2009-01-30 "I was just told by the Spanish foreign minister that Spain decided to change the legislation
In order to change the possibility of different organisations, political organisations, to abuse the legal system in Spain in order to put charges against Israelis and others that are fighting terror."
-- Tzipi Livni, Foreign Minister of Israel, told journalists after a telephone conversation with her Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos
2009-01-29 The High Court in Spain is starting a war-crimes investigation into a former Israeli defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and six of his military officials for the bombing in 2002 of a building in the Gaza Strip killing 14 civilians and Salah Shehada, a leader of the Hamas military wing.

2009-01-26 "We have clear evidence," he said. "In our report that we sent to the United Nations, we made it clear that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld clearly authorized torture methods and he was told at that time by Alberto Mora, the legal council of the Navy, 'Mr. Secretary, what you are actual ordering here amounts to torture.' So, there we have the clear evidence that Mr. Rumsfeld knew what he was doing but, nevertheless, he ordered torture."
-- Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, during an interview with CNN's Rick Sanchez
2009-01-14 "Israel is practicing state terror, because it is using violence on a massive scale against Palestinian civilians for political purposes."
-- Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations at Oxford University who served in the Israeli army in the mid-1960s, interview with Amy Goodman
2008-12-30 Firing rockets into civilian areas with the intent to harm and terrorize Israelis has no justification whatsoever, regardless of Israel's actions in Gaza...At the same time, Israel should not target individuals and institutions in Gaza solely because they are part of the Hamas-run political authority, including ordinary police. Only attacks on military targets are permissible, and only in a manner that minimizes civilian casualties.
-- Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division
2008-12-15 "I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it."
-- -- Dick Cheney, Vice-President USA, in an interview with ABC News in response to the question: "Did you authorize the tactics that were used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?"












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